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Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of archer from le Clerc's 'Principes de dessein' (recto)
Johnson Manuscript page - print of a man walking in profile with a stone on his shoulder from 'Treatise of painting' (1721) (verso)

Maker

(etcher)
1637-1714

Copy after
(artist)
1452-1519

Title

Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of archer from le Clerc's 'Principes de dessein' (recto)
Johnson Manuscript page - print of a man walking in profile with a stone on his shoulder from 'Treatise of painting' (1721) (verso)

Date of Production

1721 and ?

Medium

etching (recto and verso) on laid paper, the recto print on a separate sheet trimmed and hinged at the upper left corner to the page

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm (whole page)
Width: 13.4 cm (whole page)

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.117

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


engraving (printing process)








Related Works

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook)

Provenance

possibly Albert Rubens (1614-1657); bought by Captain Maurice Johnson, 1742/44 for his father, Maurice Johnson Sr., Spalding (1688-1755); by descent in Johnson and Marsden families; W.A. Marsden (book-plate, 1897); Christopher Marsden (bookplate, 1930); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 23-24 March, 1970, lot 179; purchased there via Maggs Bros. (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£2,600); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner of plate, printed in black: “36“. Verso: upper right corner, printed in black: “front p. 113.“; lower right corner of plate, printed in black: “11“.

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